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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami.

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Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound.

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Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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